Volume 39, Number 10 · May 28, 1992
Frontier Fantasies
By Robert M. Adams
BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ESSAY
River of Traps: A Village Life University
by William deBuys, by Alex Harris
University of New Mexico Press/Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, 238 pp., $19.95
Birds of Sorrow: Notes from a River Junction in Northern New Mexico
by Tom Ireland
Zephyr Press, 231 pp., $12.95 (paper)
A Garlic Testament
by Stanley Crawford
HarperCollins, 241 pp., $20.00
The Place Where Souls Are Born: A Journey to the Southwest
by Thomas Keneally, Introduction by Jan Morris
Simon and Schuster, 249 pp., $20.00
A History of the Jews in New Mexico
by Henry J. Tobias
University of New Mexico Press, 294 pp., $24.95
Jews of the American West
edited by Moses Rischin, edited by John Livingston
Wayne State University Press, 226 pp., $29.95
William deBuys's first book about New Mexico dealt with the Sangre de Cristo mountain range and its fate at the hands of trappers, miners, loggers, land-grabbers, naturists, and 'sportsmen' who descended on it in successive waves. Each group had its own interests to impose on the hills, the southernmost range of the Rockies; and those with the highest quality palaver were not always least destructive of the living inhabitants.
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